Meet our alumni Creative Residents.

2018 Alumni Residents

Andrea Hock

An U/AN UX/UI designer from St. Louis, Missouri, Andrea spent her residency designing apps that focused on automation and showed how Internet-connected objects can improve the human experience. She also shared her design process and best practices on her YouTube channel, in workshops and in digital resources to excite others about experience design and its role in our society and culture. She’s recently designed an augmented reality recipe app and a meditation app that connects with your lamp, humidifier and other devices to automatically create a calming atmosphere. She’s now working full-time as a freelance UI designer.

Aaron Bernstein

Passionate about reflecting facets of contemporary culture through photography-driven projects, New York City -based photographer Aaron Bernstein spent his residency exploring the intersection of food, art and style under the digital guise of Hungry Boy. He’s now maintaining Hungry Boy as a creative plug socket while collaborating with like-minded brands and continuing to focus on food as an effective tool to navigate art and design.

Anna Daviscourt

An illustrator from Portland, Oregon, Anna speaks to younger generations through her stories. As a creative resident, she wrote and illustrated her first picture book, gained representation at Shannon Associates and built a portfolio full of fun and diverse subjects. She also spoke at events such as Adobe Live and Adobe MAX and built an online presence on YouTube and Twitch. As she continues her illustration career, she’s sharing her knowledge through teaching online and exploring the world of children's publishing.

Laura Zalenga

Laura is a portrait photographer from southern Germany who spent her residency year exploring a different genre of photography. For her documentary project Beauty of Age, she interviewed and took portraits of 35 elderly people. Her goal was to show that there is so much more to age than what society sees, including beauty, life wisdom and first-hand knowledge of our history. Laura’s residency motivated her to give more talks and workshops and she plans to create a new documentary that raises awareness about adoption and how it makes the world a better, more connected and more diverse place.

Isabel Lea

Co-founder of the creative studio ATYPICAL, Isabel works at the intersection of typography, design and art direction. For her residency project, she explored using typography and design to visualise language in more playful and experimental ways. She brought language to life through type-led product collections, interactive installations, typefaces and photography essays that celebrated aspects of culture that felt untranslatable. She continues to work with clients, create commissions and do talks and essays on these themes.

Nadine Kolodziey

Nadine is a visual artist and illustrator based in Frankfurt and Berlin. She works at the intersection of digital and analogue with the goal of creating visual experiences rather than images. During her residency, she combined materials such as plastic and pixels to create work that was hand-cut, melted or transformed into walkable augmented reality environments and she invited the community to participate and engage with her artwork. She’s interested in new challenges, deep-diving in AR and doing big scale installations as well as projects in Japan in the future.

Temi Coker

A photographer and graphic designer based Dallas, Texas, Temi spent his residency exploring the possibilities of merging his two primary media. He created ad campaigns, album covers, posters and look-books targeting the music, fashion and sports industries. He also created tutorials and led workshops to encourage the creative community to merge photography and design. More recently, he designed cheer cards for the Golden State Warriors and he and his wife plan to open a design studio to help brands stand out and tell their stories. He also wants to teach online courses and open his own shop to sell products showcasing his designs.

2017 Alumni Residents

Jessica Bellamy

A designer from Louisville, Kentucky, Jessica uses data to tell personalised visual stories. With a goal of driving social change, she partners with nonprofits and community groups to design compelling materials that break down complex information. She spent her residency working on new approaches to her creative process and design execution and she encouraged the creative community to support and promote working with nonprofits.

Chelsea Burton

A graphic designer from Erie, Pennsylvania with passions for street art, skateboard-smithing and design, Chelsea spent her residency developing a line of longboards showcasing her artwork. She explored subjects including the public perception of female strength, individuality, sustainability, product quality and the functional and accessible application of art and she shared the stages of her process all the way through the production of her wood decks.

Rosa Kammermeier

A graphic designer and lettering artist from Munich, Germany, Rosa used her residency to create a project called Walk of Happiness. She lettered messages of positivity on retail windows to create a city-wide treasure hunt. Her messages caught consumers’ attention and made them stop, smile and think while discovering new aspects and areas of their city. She challenged herself to improve her own skills while thinking and driving impact on a bigger scale.

Aundre Larrow

A photographer based in Brooklyn, New York, Aundre spent his residency working on projects that explored the daily lives, challenges and perspectives of a diverse range of people throughout the US His main project, Stories from Here, was a snapshot of America through the eyes of its residents. He captured photographs, made video content for the first time and shared his process — all with the goal of making longer-form storytelling about unheard voices his primary work.

Natalie Lew

An interaction designer based in Brooklyn, New York, Natalie is passionate about the intersections of design and philosophy. As a resident, she created digital solutions in the spaces of professional networking, charitable giving (with DonorsChoose.org), public resource access and educational news (with Newsela.com). She also created a notebook detailing her creative process to help make UX design more accessible to the creative community. She plans to work in interaction design for civic and urban planning in the future.

Julia Nimke

A German photographer based in Berlin, Julia is passionate about nature, travelling and unique types of cultural storytelling. She spent her residency exploring and documenting places and cultures in Europe that are tied to folk tales and she tried out different photography styles, combined photos and videos into compelling stories and shared what she learnt with the community. Her goal was to inspire people to stay curious and open-minded when they experience unknown places and cultures.

2016 Alumni Residents

Sara Dietschy

Sara came to the residency with the goal of amplifying her work across the spectrum of social media and pursuing a bigger medium for her YouTube-based series, Creative SpacesTV. She spoke at events like Adobe MAX and SXSW and took on collaborations and partnerships that led her to become a Sony Alpha Collective member, the Director of Photography for the documentary Internet Kids and a nominee for Vlogger of the Year at the 2017 Shorty Awards.

Christine Herrin

Christine spent her residency designing a line of paper products that encouraged people to document their lives in creative and meaningful ways. She launched her first product, the Everyday Explorers Travel Journal kit and used it to test ideas and share her vision. She says she learnt how to balance new ideas with the financial and practical limitations of building and growing a creative business and made plans to expand her product line and incorporate her new skills into her graphic design practice.

Syd Weiler

Syd used her residency to build a creative community around her work where others could learn, share and work with her. She explored the digital sticker store trend and created the now-Facebook-infamous Trash Doves. She also took the time to figure out what kind of work she wanted to be making and says she came away equipped to achieve her goals, maintain a productive career doing what she loves and contribute positivity and knowledge to the online creative community.

Craig Winslow

Craig spent his residency creating a large series of light installations around the world called Light Capsules. He worked on improving his technique and optimising his process for projection mapping while simultaneously going deeper into the details of sign painting and typography. He says the residency challenged him to get out of his comfort zone, tackle bigger projects and explore new concepts — and he gained confidence in himself and his work.

2015 Alumni Residents

Kelli Anderson

Kelli spent her residency exploring the question, “What can paper do?” She tinkered with the material’s capacity to amplify sound, tell time and work as a camera. She even took a few everyday tech objects and stripped them down to the bare minimum, rebuilding them in paper pop-up book form. The text of the book explains how simple structures can tap into the physical world’s invisible forces to make surprisingly sophisticated things happen.

Becky Simpson

Becky used her residency to build and launch her online store, Chipper Things, a lifestyle and paper brand that celebrates play and delights in the ordinary. She began the year with her #100DaysOfGettingStarted project, in which she illustrated something new every day for three months. Much of that art can be found in Chipper Things and in dozens of shops across the US and Canada. She also finished her second book, The Flatmate Book, an illustrated guide to flatmate life that was published by Andrews McMeel.